
Kareem Kotb El sayed
Finance Manager
Shorouk City, Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Financial ControllerFull Time
- Job Details:Oversee all aspects of the company's financial operations, including accounting, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, and reporting. • Provide strategic financial leadership by developing and implementing financial strategies, policies, and procedures to achieve the company's short-term and long-term objectives. • Lead the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting, coordinating inputs from all relevant stakeholders and budget owners. Monitor and analyze budget vs. actual. • Manage cash flow, working capital, and liquidity to ensure optimal financial stability and efficiency to minimize financial risks. • Prepare and present accurate, timely, and comprehensive financial reports to senior management, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities. Ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data, adhering (IFRS) and (GAAP) where applicable. • Provide timely and insightful financial analysis to support management decisions. • Supervise and coordinate with FSSC the day-to-day operations and lead the execution of month-end and year-end closing activities of the base as per corporate financial policies and procedures. • Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes, Business Processes and highlight reporting automation and process improvements opportunities. • Oversee all tax operations and audits ensuring their compliance with local tax to ensure accurate and timely calculation, filing, reviewing, and reporting as well as fulfilling all legal obligations. • Manage the audit process through coordinating with external auditors, ensuring the annual and interim audit process run efficiently and effectively. • Designing, implementing, assessing, and monitoring the internal control framework, including group policies and key risks, to ensure that the company has adequate controls to prevent errors and frauds in financial reporting, processes, and business operations
Finance ManagerFull Time
- Job Details:My responsibilities included: Prepare Accounting operations strategy and plan, in coordination with the CEO to effectively manage the performance of set objectives and KPIs to ensure attainment of it. Direct all aspects of accounting operations pertaining to AP, AR, billing, GL, FA, bank dealings, reconciliation, cash planning, and payroll to verify the accuracy of the financial operations. Oversee and prepare monthly and annual financial statements and reports along with all required financial analysis and Present to CEO and Shareholders to support decision making. Manage & constantly review projected cash flow and analyze variances over plan on monthly basis to ensure optimum liquidity position. Lead and manage the annual budget, rolling forecast and planning process and Identify variances between actual and budgeted financial results at the end of each reporting period Oversee all tax operations and audits ensuring their compliance with local tax to ensure accurate and timely calculation, filing, reviewing, and reporting as well as fulfilling all legal obligations. Optimize and oversee the implementation of the accounting/financial policies and procedures ensuring compliance of all associates to maintain and strengthen internal controls. Manage and coach team members, as well as identify their individual training needs, and monitor their development to support achieving the department’s strategies and plans (15 Employees) liaison with banks, leasing, insurance, and other financial institutions to seek timely arrangements of funded and non-funded facilities
Finance ManagerFull Time
- Job Details:My responsibilities included: Oversee all the finance functions (financial & business planning, cash projection, budgeting, forecasting, treasury management, KPIs, financial Analysis) Closely monitor the company’s cash flow on a daily base and forecasted, to ensure a healthy cash flow to maintain liquidity for any unexpected out cash flow. Coordinating and directing the preparation of the annual budget and financial forecasts and report the variances on monthly basis Supervising the day-to-day operation and managing, planning, and controlling all aspects of accounts including AP, AR, GL, Assets, treasury, taxes, stock Streamline and prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing and reporting process. Develop, coach, mentor, motivate and energize an active team of highly productive employees. Ensure the compliance of the Finance department with local GAAP, IFRS and GYMA global policies and procedures Consolidate and improve financial documentation systems for better and effective internal controls as per standers company procedures liaison with banks, leasing, insurance, and other financial institutions to seek timely arrangements of funded and non-funded facilities Manage the audit process through coordinating with external auditors, ensuring the annual and interim audit process run efficiently and effectively. (Deloitte) Collaborate with the tax consultant and authorities in providing the required data and ensure that all tax reports performed and submitted on time (VAT, WHT, CIT, Salary) Coordination and dealing with suppliers, customers, and other parties in handling of financial and operation matters Directly supervising the payroll function and IT Department including ERP system
Chief AccountantFull Time
Dalba Holding Group
Mar 2009 - Jul 2017 -8 yrs, 4 months
Saudi Arabia , Riyadh
- Job Details:My responsibilities included: Preparing and reviewing periodical financial statements (standalone & consolidated) and report to the top management. Oversee and manage the day-to-day operation, planning, and controlling all aspects of accounts including AP, AR, GL, Assets, treasury, taxes, stock, reconciliations. Manage Cash Flow, and analyze variances over plan on monthly basis Manage Annual budget and monthly / quarterly rolling forecast updates, and variance analysis. Have complete responsibility for AR/AP including billing system, collections, Aging, limits, customers issues & reports, vendor’s invoices, accruals & ensuring timely payments Liaise with Banks and Financial Institutions and manage all banking and treasury functions including loans, facilities agreement, overdraft, LC, LG, investments, in & out Fund Plan, prioritize, assign, supervise and review the work of the accounting Department (20person) and provide training to new and existing staff as needed Liaise with external & internal auditors to streamline periodic audit process, provide necessary financial information to assist them in executing their role appropriately. (KPMG) Contribute to the design and development of the Costing system, providing and presenting the necessary information to determine the cost of each of the Company's products. Involved in annual budget, Allocating, and controlling funds allotted under approved budget Prepare and submit Zakat return and respond to the observations of Zakat authority on time. Managing ERP implementations and the continuous required updates as well.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2001 - Jan 2005 - 4 yr
Achievements
Successfully completed the implementation of ERP Systems (AX-Oracle-Odoo) in 3 different companies Optimized and shorten the cash conversion cycle from 115days+ reaching 20days and reduced the percentage of stock destruction and shortage from 15% to 2% Reduced company expenditures by 10% by consistently detecting potential cost savings
Skills
Languages
English
FluentArabic
Fluent
Training & Certifications
The Complete Financial Analyst Course 2022
Udemy·2022Analyzing Company Performance using Ratios
Coursera·2022Discounted Cash Flow Modeling
Coursera·2022Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) - Prep Course
Corporate Finance Institute·2021Dynamic AX Implementation
Compusoft Microsoft Partner ·2016Oracle ERP Implementation
Alpha Computer Company ·2013Computerized Accounting
The CFO·2006BASIC BUSINESS SKILLS ACQUISITION
Future Generation Foundation·2006